# Spread deadlines across day - multiple deadlines at the same time is a mistake

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spread-deadlines-across-day-multiple-deadlines-at-the-same-time-is-a-mistake/7050>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [July 26, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spread-deadlines-across-day-multiple-deadlines-at-the-same-time-is-a-mistake/7050 "2020-07-26T08:53:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![beeminder\_user](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@beeminder\_user](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/beeminder_user)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spread-deadlines-across-day-multiple-deadlines-at-the-same-time-is-a-mistake/7050/1 "2020-07-26T08:53:03Z")

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It seems that my experiment with spreading deadlines across the day was a good idea.

I had previously a major problem with (on bad days) postponing everything till 23:00 and trying in panic to fix everything in one hour. Which was failing in multiple ways.

Now on bad days I get a much more direct and earlier wakeup call, which makes Beeminder more useful to me.

I forgot twice that I did it and failed to enter data, but these derails were reverted by wonderful support.

(I remember related/similar threads, somehow I have not tried this for a long time - so this is my +1 to the entire idea. Maybe Beeminder should encourage customizing deadline time a bit more (show it in goal creation menu?).)

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spread-deadlines-across-day-multiple-deadlines-at-the-same-time-is-a-mistake/7050/2 "2020-07-26T14:28:17Z")

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Thanks for this testimonial and for the kind words!

Here’s a blog post you might be remembering: [https://blog.beeminder.com/waterfalls/](https://blog.beeminder.com/waterfalls/) – we call these deadline waterfalls.